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cops and fairmen this includes you in michigan now too. you damn fools here is what you paid for. >> in other words turn them into mulch. >> stephanie: exactly. >> i'm going to filibuster mulch. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: sexy liberal john fugelsang he got in early so he snatched him and we'll have him all next hour as well. and of course in washington, d.c. with january 19th which john fugelsang tickets going incredibly fast. >> incredibly fast especially because now we're going to have to do 400 shows in michigan this year. some see it it could be the last chance to see aisha and hal -- >> stephanie: and chris and jim and jacki are opening the show for us. >> they are. and we're going to share one hotel room. >> we're going to share a mystery machine from scoopby do. >> stephanie: and a huge celebrity on the panel as well. >> joy behar is putting on comics for benefits. listen to this line up, stephanie and chris and jim -- >> stephanie: what? >> monday night at the 92nd street y current will be filming it and it will be joy behar, colin
cops and fairmen this includes you in michigan now too. you damn fools here is what you paid for. >> in other words turn them into mulch. >> stephanie: exactly. >> i'm going to filibuster mulch. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: sexy liberal john fugelsang he got in early so he snatched him and we'll have him all next hour as well. and of course in washington, d.c. with january 19th which john fugelsang tickets going incredibly fast. >> incredibly fast especially because...
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michigan sucks because your government hates workers and women. and again, i don't know with everything going on the fiscal cliff and all of that if people saw this. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] you talk about republicans rammed through this legislation in a lame duck session hours after they were introduce to both chambers, prohibiting private unions that nonunion employees pay fees. the senate imposed the same requirement on most public unions. no public input. it was a naked power play. orchestrated by the skeevy governor rick schneider who was riding the anti-union wave. it would have enshrined public employee collective baring aining. right to work essentially a way for corporate bastards to tell the workers to go [ bleep ] themselves. and not so fun fact, in fact, most of the [ bleep ] states for workers in the country a right to work because it makes it easier to reduce pay and benefits. i don't know if anybody knew what -- that this all happened so quickly. >> it did. in fact, it got filed and there is actually a law in michigan that s
michigan sucks because your government hates workers and women. and again, i don't know with everything going on the fiscal cliff and all of that if people saw this. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] you talk about republicans rammed through this legislation in a lame duck session hours after they were introduce to both chambers, prohibiting private unions that nonunion employees pay fees. the senate imposed the same requirement on most public unions. no public input. it was a naked...
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the michigan state legislature passed the law on thursday. but in the wake of friday's tragedy in newtown governor snyder has called for a more thorough review of the law. we need more thorough review of gun violence-related issues. he says the concealed carry bill needs to be looked at in a more comprehensive context. now this particular move is welcome news. however, "the huffington post" points out that snyder did find two other laws, one streamlines the process for buying handguns and the other gets rid of restrictions for rifle and shot gunn transactions between people in michigan and neighboring states. and florida governor rick scott insists though he complied with the law he's now going to look into the problems the state had during the past election. including the number of voting days being restricted. by the way he's the one who restricted those. the excessive link of the ballot and inadequate size of polling locations. this news comes at the same time a new quinnipiac poll shows that 52% of voters in florida don't think scott dese
the michigan state legislature passed the law on thursday. but in the wake of friday's tragedy in newtown governor snyder has called for a more thorough review of the law. we need more thorough review of gun violence-related issues. he says the concealed carry bill needs to be looked at in a more comprehensive context. now this particular move is welcome news. however, "the huffington post" points out that snyder did find two other laws, one streamlines the process for buying handguns...
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mernii in michigan. hi, merni. >> caller: hi steph. i'm going to take you off of speaker. >> stephanie: all right. thank you go ahead. >> caller: i wanted to make a follow-up to one of the things that you just brought up that these businesses like wal-mart and a lot of them don't want to pay more than basically minimum wage and then not even have people working a full -- you know a full workweek. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: and basically they -- on top of that they are forcing these people to go and get additional services -- >> stephanie: yeah i just read the story corporate profits literally an at all-time high. >> caller: exactly. yeah, and it's just frustrating because then wal-mart and these other businesses are going to the government and saying they need help with trying to provide healthcare for their workers and other things and it's kind of like, you know if you don't want to provide welfare for the lower-class people, why would you think you are entitled to making all of these profits that you are? >> stephanie: yep. tha
mernii in michigan. hi, merni. >> caller: hi steph. i'm going to take you off of speaker. >> stephanie: all right. thank you go ahead. >> caller: i wanted to make a follow-up to one of the things that you just brought up that these businesses like wal-mart and a lot of them don't want to pay more than basically minimum wage and then not even have people working a full -- you know a full workweek. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: and basically they -- on top of that...
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nita in michigan. hi. >> caller: how are you today? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: i live here in michigan with governor snyder and something about these crazy republicans that he cut our unemployment from 26 to 20 weeks. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: it's like okay. and trying to make it a right to work state. we have democrats -- we as democrats need stand up and tell the republicans no, you're not. we're not going to go through this and we're not going to take it. there's something wrong with them. seriously wrong with policy and everything. now, my question is they want to close -- gitmo. where are they going to put the prisoners. >> stephanie: what? has that been a debate recently? >> caller: it was in the newspaper here last week. >> stephanie: oh i see. >> caller: the concern about gitmo. i know they wanted to put them up -- >> stephanie: i think the fiscal cliff is the most pressing issue. what's going on this morning? why are people mixing their topics together? i don't understand. >> the plan is to amuse -- it is a cushion
nita in michigan. hi. >> caller: how are you today? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: i live here in michigan with governor snyder and something about these crazy republicans that he cut our unemployment from 26 to 20 weeks. >> stephanie: right. >> caller: it's like okay. and trying to make it a right to work state. we have democrats -- we as democrats need stand up and tell the republicans no, you're not. we're not going to go through this and we're not going to take...
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. >> stephanie: paul in michigan, you're on with hal. >> caller: how you doing stephanie? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: i don't care what the crackheads say about you. you put on an awesome show. >> stephanie: thank you. i appreciate it. >> caller: i think that we should let texas and the rest of the confederacy secede from the united states but first we'll have to confiscate all of their money because that's united states currency and they'll have to print up their own currency. they can put rick perry's picture on it. >> stephanie: and their guns and take their guns so we don't have a second revolution or a war. >> don't have to take their guns. we have to take our military bases back and every military or chemical plant or nuclear plant or power plant. >> stephanie: nuclear pants. >> sorry. simmer down. all of the things that the federal government has built in those states which since they receive more money than they actually give is the majority of the infrastructure. we'll re-claim our asphalt and we'll come and re-claim -- >> stephanie: you know what gives you nuc
. >> stephanie: paul in michigan, you're on with hal. >> caller: how you doing stephanie? >> stephanie: good. >> caller: i don't care what the crackheads say about you. you put on an awesome show. >> stephanie: thank you. i appreciate it. >> caller: i think that we should let texas and the rest of the confederacy secede from the united states but first we'll have to confiscate all of their money because that's united states currency and they'll have to print...